Cash-carrier.



No. 647,089. Patented Apr. l0, map.

0. M. HAMMOND.

CASH CARRIER.

(Application filed Oct. 16, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARA MARIA HAMMOND, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF SIX- SEVENTHS TO DANIEL W. SKINNER, OF SAME PLACE, CYRUS E. SKINNER, WVALTER L. SKINNER, AND LUCIEN C. SKINNER, OF SANDWICH, CELIA M. WEST AND JETTIE A. SKINNER, OF LITTLETON, DANIEL H. GLINES, OF LISBON, AND OLIVE L. FRYE, OF MEREDITH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

CASH-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 647,089, dated April 10, 1900.

Application filed October 16, 1899.

T0 at whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARA MARIA HAM- MOND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Carriers; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to cash-carriers; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of a cash-carrier constructed according to this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view of the rear stirrup. Fig. 4 is a cross-section through a carrier-box. Fig. 5 is a similar cross-section through a carrier-box, showing a modification.

A is a portion of the track.

B is a carrier-box provided with a handle I) at one end and guides b on its under side for engaging with the track.

O is the lid of the carrier-box, which has a cylindrical portion 0, which is circular in form and which engages with the circular receptacle c of the boX.

D are flanges on the periphery of the lid, which is revolved upon the box, so as to place the said flanges into or out of engagement with projections 01 onthe box. WVhen the flanges engage with the projections, the lid cannot be raised without first partially re- Volving it. V

E is an upwardly and rearwardly inclined projection on the lid 0 for engaging with the shooting or propelling spring and also serving as a handle by which thelid is revolved in the box.

' In the modification shown in Fig. 5 the receptacle c has a liner 0', which projects upwardly above the body of the box, and the cylindrical portion C of the lid revolves upon Serial No. 733,757. (No model.)

the projecting portion of the liner instead of projecting into the receptacle, as shown in Fig. 4.

F is the front stirrup, which is secured to the track.

G is the shooting or propelling spring, com prising a loop of india-rubber or other spring material. The ends of the spring are secured to the front stirrup in any approved manner.

H is the rear stirrup, the base portion h of which is secured to the track. The side portions it project above the track and are strengthened by diagonal brace-plates i. The side portions have flanges t" at their tops, and I are channel-shaped guides secured to the said flanges. The guides I have beads j secured around their rear edges for the spring to bear against. A passage is formed between the upper portions of the beads of each guide which is narrower at its upper part than at its lower part. The elastic spring is pressed downward through the narrow upper part of the passage and slides freely in the lower part of the passage. The narrow part of the passage prevents the spring from being sprung accidentally out of the guide. The rear stirrup supports the rear part of the spring-loop and holds it under tension in a convenient position.

The carrier-box is propelled along the track by placing the projection E against the loop of the spring and pulling the handle of the box rearwardly until the spring is stretched sufficiently to carry the box along the track, when the handle is let go.

What I claim is 1. In a cash-carrier, the combination, with a track, a front stirrup secured to the track, and a spring attached to the front stirrup; of

a rear stirrup secured to the track and pro vided with channel-shaped guides open at the top which engage with the said spring, substantially as set forth.

2. In a cash-carrier, the combination, with a track, a front stirrup secured to the track, and a spring attached to the front stirrup; of a rear stirrup secured to the track and pro-- 4. In a cash-carrier, the combination, with a track, of a carrier-box slidable on the track, aremovable lid for the said box provided with an upwardly and rearwardly inclined projection for engaging with the propellingspring, and means for locking the lid to the box, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CLARA MARIA HAMMOND. WVitnesses:

FREDK. K. DAGGETT, ALICE J. MURRAY. 

